Newsweek names Obama as the first ‘gay’ president

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President Obama speaks out for LGBT people, Romney the cultist homophobe is cheered by a crowd of cultist homophobes, I know which of these two candidates is going to win in November and it isn’t the Mormon.

It is worth noting that during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Republican voters chose John McCain to run as their candidate. He had no issue against marriage equality, unlike fellow nominee, Mick Huckabee. It will be interesting to see what both the Republicans and Democrats come up with for the 2016 campaign as Barak Obama has to stand down then. Don’t forget some Republicans are happy to endore gay marriage while some Democrats are opposed. In America political parties are still elected on economic rather than religious policies.

I think it is sooo closed minded of ANYONE to say that for Obama to support Gay marriage he has to be gay. He has people working for him who are gay and he has learned to listen instead of just spouting off . I know for a fact that George Bush had gays working for him (I worked for him for a few months as an intern and was offered a permanent position within the White House). I applaud President Obama for his courage to publicly support such a controversial issue.

I’d love to see a gay president – or prime minister for that matter – but giving the accolade to a straight man is just kind of desperate. The idea of a gay world leader isn’t so impossible that we have to claim a straight guy for it

And, besdies, Obama’s record is better than any other president (which isn’t saying much) – but it’s far from perfect

Hopefully where the fact they’re gay doesn’t even matter versus their politics. On this we have to salute Belgium being on to their 2nd openly gay head of Government and Iceland with Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. Perhaps Germany is next with Guido Westerwelle who is already Vice Chancellor…?

The reason why Newsweek is saying this (euphemistically?) is because back when Clinton was getting impeached, he was dubbed the “first Black president” by Toni Morrison:

“Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.”

It’s become a running gag about Clinton ever since, a lot like how Al Gore (Clinton’s Vice-president) is still called the guy who “invented the Internet”. Obama being the “first gay president” falls in the line of comically or euphemistically inflating a pivotal action of that person’s time in office or that person’s background.

Well Tony Morrison, (whoever he was/is) was wrong JFK was regularly called the first Black president, and shockingly was often refereed to as the N****r president and when he was murdered that was mooted as a
possible reason for his assassination and that he was killed by white supremacists……

You are sillier than you admit. He is NOT destroying anything, he is extending it. He is adding members to it, and creating a bigger membership. And please don’t insult us by telling us that marriage is a thousand year old tradition and it is now under threat.. because it isn’t, on both counts..

It is time for all of the LGBT people and their allies to come out of the closet if we are to win our equal and civil rights and freedoms. Liberty University is making Christian terrorist to take over the government like Jerry Fawell the religious fanatic who started Liberty in Lynchburg Virgina wanted to do. It is the Christian Jihad training camp to train terrorist Christians on how to take over governments.

There is so much truth in what you say, it sounds incredible to people who are unaware of the lengths that Christian dominionist’s are actually going to to realise their plan of world domination, and it really is a global network of allied churches, church planting and training programs.
The Christian dominionist’s have been working towards this for several decades already while keeping just below the radar, it is too insane for most people to accept that it is happening.
They are “salty”, methodical, obsessive and they are very highly motivated and persistent indeed. Uganda is their experimental model for the rest of the world.

Not long ago the media was touting Obama as America’s first Muslim President on account of his middle name being Hussein.
Abraham Lincoln was widely believed to be gay which would have made him America’s first Gay President, and ironically, he was a Republican.

He was the first Republican President, but there is no way he would be a Republican today, thanks to the right-wing fundamentalist fascists that have taken over this party that originally stood strongly against slavery.

Euphemism or otherwise, I wouldn’t mind hedging bets that this Newsweek and The New Yorker editions become collector editions! (and) start showing up in time capsules in decades to come.

In 1969 “ALL” of America was jubilant when they landed the first man on the moon.

It is unbelievable that 43 years (almost 5 decades later!) the USA has a president who to both jubilation and discord of it’s citizens, announced his support for LGBT rights and marriage equality.

It’s a sad reflection, that there is more unison and pride in what America accomplished 43 years ago, than there is unison, a determined objective and support for it’s presidents statement he supports equal rights and equality for all citizens.

Hopefully, Newsweek and the New Yorker, will ensure President Obama is on the right side of history!

This is so pathetic, Obama says the right things and is loved, but his actions say otherwise, he defended DOMA in district court 2009, and initially to Circuit court in 2010. c.f. http://tinyurl.com/cyx5r9g

Later yes he tells the DOJ to stop defending DOMA, but he refuses to use his power to prevent others (i.e. BLAG) from defending it in his place. Basically Obama is allowing others to do the dirty work because he wants to be seen to oppose DOMA but does not want to be seen to have stopped DOMA.

When DATA was ruled on unconstitutional in court in October, 2010 due to the Log Cabin Republicans challenge, the Armed forces could no longer dismiss an openly gay person & Obama had it REINSTATED in November 2010, so he could repeal it a month later by legislation in December 22, 2010. The only ban lifted because of Obama was the one he made.

How dare you. I don’t hate Obama because of race. I dislike him because he is a liar, he betrayed us & he’s a democrat.

Tell me Paddyswurds,

Why don’t you accurately know your history? You have been wrong on so many points
Why do you never take any of the points I make, that you disagree with and debate them?
But rather why do you always resort to insults (& unfounded insults at that), rather than providing counter points? If you think something I wrote is wrong, it’s important to correct it. Lord knows you have to be constantly corrected
Why do you rampantly drag along pinknews writing wrong statements and lies?
Why do you never provide sources? (My previous question answers this doesn’t it?)
Why do make hysterical statements?
Why do you discriminate against people of faith?
Why do you not acknowledge that in all races, genders, orientations, faiths, atheism, & political affiliations … there is good and bad?

Religious people are the ones who don’t know how to intelligently debate, to be religious you have to give up all rational thought processes, therefore it is impossible to debate intelligently with you, of course if we descend to your level and debate in terms you understand, we get beaten by your experience. Religion enforces ignorance, hate and abuse, therefore it should be banned.

“Therefore it is impossible to debate intelligently with you”
I’ve never used religion to justify any stance on any issue so I’m afraid that reason is all in your head love.

“Religion enforces ignorance, hate and abuse.”
No prejudices, homophobia enforces ignorance, hate and abuse. There are atheists out there with prejudices. It’s called the human condition.

“Should be banned”
That’s just wrong on so many levels Freedom of Speech, Though, Expression.
I always wondered how anti-gay groups in churches ever got the idea that gays wanted to destroy the church. Well done dear you just validated these idiots’ beliefs?

If you refuse to deal with the issue and raise the debate you’ll never sway anyone.
Sometimes it’s enough to sway those watching/reading rather than the person you disagree with.

“remarks about the French & Irish ” You people really clutch at straws. That’s not racism.
Those are nationalities love, not races. If this is not the case, by your logic YOU are a racist piece of sh*t (& a lot of others on here too) given your remarks and plain hateful insults about us Americans. And yet you only attack me. So we’re all racists then according to you?

Moving on, you avoided the argument, adding nothing. Care to play on my level. Take a point, read it, research it, counter it, if you can? You might even learn something in the attempt.

Oh and written an hour before your comment here, is a blaring racist comment by user Sevrin below and your condemnation is sadly lacking!

If you want to attack a real racist remark, scroll down the page, read what user Sevrin wrote, condemn his views. Then you can pretend you deplore racism and try to hide your vendetta with me (all because you can’t handle some truth & comments about Europe & its nations)

You seem light on your history. You do know that fascism was derived from Socialism. Mussolini was leader of the Italian Socialist Party, before going on to create fascism. His final title was Head of State of the Italian Social Republic.
And Hitler was leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (1921–1945) and he adored Mussolini & his teaching & tactics. Both sought to be leaders under crazy titles for life.

You say you’ve learned and yet in Europe, in France you’ve elected a socialist President. Greece has just elected a socialist party that can’t form a collation and threatens to collapse the currency. Both the Euro and the markets took a drive after Election Day.

You do know that being Republican by definition is the farthest you can get from socialist & fascism.

But perhaps you’re referring to bigots. We do have them among us & so do democrats.
Just tonight on CNN I was watching that more than 55% of the black democrats are against gay-marriage. Now the news focus was on blacks and Obama, but I assure you bigots come in all races, genders, orientations, faiths, atheism, and political affiliations.

Some guy said gay-marriage would trouble the black-family & confuse children. And yet the report concluded that these black democrats while disagreeing about same-sex marriage would still vote for Obama (perhaps because as I have said “when it comes to gay rights Obama is all talk and no-action”).

That’s right dear; in the world outside your head there are democrats that oppose equal rights for gay people (Will your reply be calling them fascists) and republicans that’s support equal rights for gay people.

1. Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, where the head of state is appointed by means other than heredity, often elections. The exact meaning of republicanism varies depending on the cultural and historical context. Several definitions are covered in this article.

2. Republicanism is the political values system that has been a major part of American civic thought since the American Revolution. It stresses liberty and inalienable rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent in their performance of civic duties, and vilifies corruption.

3. The Republic Party is not a Fascist Party & Republicans are not Fascists.

Words are thrown around on the internet such as marxism, communism, socialism, and (gasp) liberalism….and god forbid anything with the root base of ‘liberty’, and ‘liberate’. So labels are used (often without care about accuracy), I see the condescending demonization that takes place. You peg a personality with your broad brush ‘liberal’ so you can mock and dismiss it, so as not to have to actually put forth a lucid or intelligent argument for your case. That’s pretty transparent, but if you can just make a bum’s rush for power, leapfrogging on the anger built up for YEARS as Republican policies were implemented for tax cuts for the super wealthy, offshoring, outsourcing, wealth distribution upwards, and bald faced corporatism.

Mussolini, the father of fascism, was quoted ‘Fascism should more appropriately be called ‘corporatism’, because it is the marriage of government and corporations’….sounds exactly like the definition of Republicanism, it is bald-faced corporatism.

Fascism is a neutral term coined by Mussolini as to be synonymous with corporatism, why can’t the Republicans just admit to practice fascism, or corporatism? Every effort I’ve ever seen made by Republicans has been on behalf of corporations, even as they cloak their agenda in populist jingoism. They already have a solid 30 % (my estimate) of what I call ‘Fox News Cultists’, many who only get their information from Fox ‘News’., plus the people they can convince with their rhetoric and propaganda to be swayed, if people actually knew the things these people stand for and who pulls their strings, they would be aghast. They operate on hate, anger, and rely on amnesia. They speak in constant contradiction and live in a state of cognitive dissonance. They are throwing out the moderates in their party and are truly scary in their intentions and means.

We already have what amounts to a plutocracy and oligarchy firmly in place. We have reverted to a robber baron state of affairs, where they

where they basically write the rules that enriches them most, at the cost of all else, almost like a parasite that blindly kills its host.

Follow the money, if you can. Because the way the rules are now, and the way it is laundered through a variety of structural entities designed for anonymity, it gives plausible deniability to candidates who are shills for their corporate interests, when their funding is trying to be scrutinized.

Remember fascism is defined as corporatism, which is a fitting description of Republicanism.

Why hide from your true self? C’mon, if everybody that doesn’t agree with you is a ‘liberal’, then why hide your fascist label? It’s the exact same thing. Every time you call somebody a liberal, you are calling yourself a fascist.

Franco was anti-communist. And Pinochet I think was anti-communist, but I’d have read more.

So once again we have another individual unable to list the points he disagrees with, pick them apart, and counter them. Admittedly a challenge because I have sourced and checked my facts, but still you should try, you might even learn something in the attempt.

oh dear, you are really thick, let me point you to the bit you have said i disagreed with

you stated
‘…You do know that fascism was derived from Socialism…’

i replied
‘…next you will be telling me that dictator Franco and Pinochet were communists…’

conclusion
general franco was a proper facist so was general pinochet who led a coup d’état which overthrew Allende’s democratically elected socialist government. we also agreed both of them were anti communist. i just hope your intellectual deficiency wont affect your ability to draw conclusion from the above

Black people are closed-minded bigots, dragging their knuckles in the dust, mostly because white people infected them with christianity, which has corrupted their morals and their world view. They also suffer from poor education, and stupid people are easily brainwashed. Black politicians are no different to white in their total lack of morals, and complete lust for power. They will say whatever they think will get them re-elected as that is all they care about.

For someone that claims and I quote “Religious people are the ones who don’t know how to intelligently debate, to be religious you have to give up all rational thought processes, therefore it is impossible to debate intelligently with you”

Now how you suggest we debate with a racist piece of sh*t such as yourself.

What you say is unworthy of any person. The problem you mention here is you and prejudice, not black people.

I’m not racist, I am proud of my family’s black ancestry. And my sister is married to a Nigerian, so I know of what I speak. I consider white bigots to be knuckle dragging Neanderthals too, we just happened to be talking about black people, who suffer from this condition disproportionally. Usually because of lack of education leaving them open to brainwashing.

Your racism claim is an insult to anyone who actually suffers from racism.

“against the French nation ” still clutching at straws. Again that’s a nation, not a race. By your logic YOU are a racist given your remarks and plain hateful insults about America.

And no condemnation of what user Sevrin wrote. You only pretend to deplore racism, but this is just a vendetta with me all because you can’t handle some truth & think France is great (ha) and beyond criticism, bless.

Since the racist southern Democrats deserted the Democratic party in droves when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and moved en mass to the Republican party, it has moved inexorably further and further to the right and now wants to roll back American history to at least the 1950’s. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, would be appalled by what his party has becomed and would not be a Republican today. You are a Log Cabin Republican and instead of congratulating Obama on his “evolution” and demanding that the Republican candidates join him in supporting same sex marriage, you condemn him while not even addressing any of the bigotry of every one of the Republican candidates for their party’s nomination, save two – Fred Karger (openly gay) and Jon Huntsman (who offered support for gay civil unions, but not gay marriage), both of whom dropped out early-on in the nomination race Why?

Folks, I don’t hate people because of race. Paddyswurds is a liar. When it comes to racism he is crying because I criticised the French or the Irish and he thinks they are beyond reproach.

He is disrespectful & intolerant of any people of faith, particularly of Christians, regardless if they are for gay-rights. Anyone that truthfully says something about Obama that he doesn’t like, they’re a racist no proof needed.

This guy has a boys-club mentality. He will never call out one of his own on a wrong action, only his opposition.
He refuses to acknowledge any wrongs that Dan Savage, Clinton or Obama has done, blinded by the tunnel vision & ignoring the reputable sources provided.
The man makes hysterical comments like the country is near collapse. He makes too many assumptions when talking, without checking the facts, or lies like ‘Obama did not defend DATA or DOMA in court’, clearly blind to pink-news, other news sites, or even Wikipedia.

It only gives “Obama a bad name” if you consider calling some gay a bad thing.

George Clooney has said he will never deny rumours that he might be gay because it would be ‘unfair and unkind’ to the gay community to give someone the opportunity to make it ‘seem like being gay is a bad thing’.

Care to point to a source for these BS insults of yours? And not one inside your head or up your arse!

This little vendetta of your looks bad, you should have this insult in response to a statement you disagree it with, with but hey if you,
Tell enough lies, write enough rubbish, give wrong and inaccurate references to history, make stupid hysterical claims, and praise your Obama well beyond the point of ass-kissing and you just might reach Top ‘Idiot’ User this Week.

Hahahahahahahahah you vile, stupid bitch! – He is, in a single stroke, stopping future rifts in families from happening and helping bigoted parents and monsters like you from driving healthy, gifted children born to be gay from ending their lives!

obama’s public support for ss marriage, no doubt a genuine believe, was a great political move that left romney with no other choice than to stick to his medieval view of ‘traditional’ marriage. had he also expressed his support for ss marriage he would have find himself this election competing not only with obama but also with tea party candidate. one way or another he is a compromise choice of the right and it is difficult to be enthusiastic about compromise

Politicians are motivated only by what will get them re-elected. Obama’s ‘coming out’ in favour of equal marriage is nothing but a political ploy to help win votes. It is however helpful to us, and if he succeeds is gaining popularity with this move, other politicians will jump on the bandwagon. However if he fails, then it will usher in another cold war against gay people.